Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: in-tree pristines fatally wounded (merge-fest etc)

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:06 am, Tom Lord wrote:
> There are parts of the proposed library hacks that _are_ core
> functionality, and parts that are clearly "convenience" commands and
> ideally belong in itla.

I haven't been following this thread in depth, so forgive me if I'm way 
off base.  But perhaps using some Scheme interpreter like Guile or pika 
would come in handy here.

Suppose that we have a user issue the command:

$ tla inventory ...etc...

tla is just a wrapper around Scheme, and a provider for the core library 
of services.  It would dispatch the `inventory' sub-command thusly:

1.  Find `inventory.scm' somehow.  Maybe have a set of script paths 
established, and failing that, look in /usr/share/tla/scripts.  The 
scripts that go in /usr/share/tla/scripts might be considered core 
commands.

2.  Run the Scheme interpreter on that file, passing the additional 
command-line arguments `...etc...' to the script via some global 
variable or something.

This way, it'd be very easy to extend tla's built-in command-set just by 
dropping in Scheme files.

Is this a good idea?  If not, why not?

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Samuel A. Falvo II